ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), September 29 (Itar-Tass) -The ceremony of lighting the flame of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi started in Ancient Olympia in the west of the Greek Peloponnese ...

“In ancient times there was no Olympic flame ceremony,” Ignatiou ... She’s still moved to tears when describing the flame lighting, but defers to her dancers to describe their experience ...

The AP team in Athens went above and beyond across formats to get exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes operation of lighting the Olympic flame, producing excellent work for both traditional and ...

“This flame is the true Olympic Flame, in the wake of the lighting ceremony in Olympia and of the Olympic Torch Relay throughout France. “Given the specificity of our cauldron and the ...

It looked as if Zinedine Zidane would light it, but he handed it off to Rafael Nadal ... allegory of the French motto of equality and fraternity. The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ...

Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the enormous cauldron comprises 40 LED spotlights and 200 misting nozzles and is tethered to what ...

(ATR) The flame for the London Olympics is lit ... The practice session ended when Menegaki used a torch to light the London Olympic torch held by Spyros Gianniotis, open water swim champion ...

Watch as the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics comes to an end with the lighting of the Olympic flame and Celine Dion's performance on the Eiffel Tower. Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport.

Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame ... hosting Olympic soccer games. After that it will be carried overland in the traditional torch relay, before arriving in Paris to light the ...

The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at the site where the Games began nearly 3,000 years ago. Townspeople were already feeling a flicker of ...